トランプはなぜ「南アフリカの白人」に執着するのか
Why is President Trump so obsessed with ”white South Africans”?
U.S. President Donald Trump has taken up the issue of white farmers in South Africa since his first term in office. In March of this year, he expelled the South African ambassador from the U.S., and this month, he suspended the entry of refugees from around the world.
Despite the suspension of the refugee program, the government accepted only white South Africans as refugees. At the summit meeting with South African President Cyril Ramaphosa on the 21st (local time), the government risked diplomatic impropriety by directly
He questioned Trump about "white persecution." He even went so far as to present a photo of the Congolese civil war as evidence of the persecution of white South Africans. Why is President Trump so obsessed with white South Africans?
A "society where white people are discriminated against by black people" is a future that President Trump and conservative white people can never accept.
Some analysts say this is stoking fears among conservative white voters that "the Democratic Party may be pushed out of the mainstream of American society and eventually become a victim of people of color."
Political power in South Africa has shifted to the black majority since the abolition of apartheid in 1994, but economic poverty has led to
Equality remains a problem: white people, who make up just 7% of the population, own more than half of South Africa's land, while black people, who make up 81% of the population, remain in deep poverty.
But it's far from the "genocide" that President Trump has described. According to the South African Police Service, of the more than 26,000 murders in South Africa last year, only 10% were farm-related.
Of the 225 victims killed on South African farms between April 2020 and March last year, 101 were employees.
The majority of the workers were black, with only 53 white. Nevertheless, President Trump created a story about South Africa being a country where whites are persecuted by blacks.
This story appealed strongly to conservative white voters in the United States, essentially sending the message, "You may one day become a victim in the country you once ruled."
Elon Musk, a white billionaire South African former member and CEO of Tesla, also backed up this claim by saying that he was denied permission to operate Starlink in South Africa because he is white.
This is the same context in which President Trump has significantly scaled back diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs since taking office. He immediately cut the federal government’s DEI program.
He signed an executive order to end the program, abolished the DEI department of federal agencies, and fired related staff. In recent years, diversity and multicultural respect culture has spread in the United States, and politically correct
This is an action aimed at white conservatives who feel a sense of crisis as the PCP is strengthening. South African documentary maker Richard Poplack wrote in an article in the New York Times on the 22nd that
In a column titled "South Africa's Scam Lands in the White House" that he contributed to the online magazine YT, he wrote that "South Africa is turning the apartheid story upside down, presenting past oppressors as victims.
"Attempts to portray white Afrikaners as victims of reverse discrimination and even targeted genocide are a global problem for white representatives," he said.
"It has something in common with conspiracy theories."
2025/05/26 09:18 KST
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